YMP Student Voices

by Chauncey NettlesMy experience in the YMP media camp has been really good. I've met a lot of new people and learned new things. On the first day I walked in the room, I saw a lot of people that I had never met before. Then I was talking to everybody in the room, and I found out that I was one of the youngest kids in the camp, but I am the tallest. I thought that was weird at first. But I got used to it.

Everybody here are so nice to me. There are a lot of different personalities. We did ice breakers and went over the rules for our camp. Then it was lunchtime. It feels like a real job when we stay in a building for seven hours and get a one-hour lunch break. ​

​When we were on our lunch break, I did not know where to eat. So I ended up eating at Chick-fil-A and bought the grilled chicken sandwich. When we got back, we learned about more things that we are going to do this summer.

The second day of camp, the day went faster than the first day. In the morning we were doing an activity to start up the day. Then we started to read a story about Cedric Willis. The story was interesting and good. After we read, we started to interview each other. We had to ask 10 questions about each other. I got to know more about the person I was talking to.

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Major Sponsors and Supporters of YMP

Mississippi Public Broadcasting (MPB) is a leader in informational broadcasting. MPB has exhibited a commitment to educating and informing Mississippians. MPB has partnered with YMP to lend tech equipment and provide youth engagement and media specialists to train students.

E3, a project of Parents of Public Schools of Jackson (now Ask for More), supported YMP in summers 2016 and 2017 with stipends for students, and other resources.The Community Foundation of Greater Jackson (now The Community Foundation of Mississippi) is the​fiscal sponsor for E3.

Podastery Studios in downtown Jackson offers a network of locally produced podcasts. Beau York, founder of Podastery, has generously donated his time to train YMP students in podcasting skills and allowed Youth Media Project students to borrow professional podcasting equipment to learn ​production skills.

Dialogue Jackson, formerly Jackson 2000 Inc., is a nonprofit corporation dedicated to fostering understanding and building harmony between people of different races, ethnicities and backgrounds. The group became YMP's fiscal sponsor in 2017 and hosts youth dialogues for teens..

Choice Printing in downtown Jackson is an in-kind sponsor of YMP offering YMP copying and printing services from its Capitol Towers location.